Foods high in Aspartic acid

Every food and ingredient below is ranked by measured Aspartic acid content per 100 g, drawn live from 62 USDA FoodData Central measurements. Values are laboratory-analysed or survey-derived, not estimated.

Top 25 foods highest in Aspartic acid

Ranked by Aspartic acid per 100g, across Foundation Foods and FNDDS ingredients.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
1	Flour, soy, defatted	Foundation Food	4.98
2	Flour, soy, full-fat	Foundation Food	3.76
3	Peanut butter, creamy	Foundation Food	3.42
4	Almond butter, creamy	Foundation Food	3.01
5	Nuts, almonds, whole, raw	Foundation Food	2.4
6	Flaxseed, ground	Foundation Food	2.31
7	Sesame butter, creamy	Foundation Food	2.06
8	Cheese, dry white, queso seco	Foundation Food	1.82
9	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg yolk	Foundation Food	1.5
10	Sausage, turkey, breakfast links, mild, raw	Foundation Food	1.48
11	Alaska Pollock, raw	Foundation Food	1.47
12	Nuts, pine nuts, raw	Foundation Food	1.38
13	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg white	Foundation Food	1.33
14	Fish, pollock, raw	Foundation Food	1.31
15	Nuts, walnuts, English, halves, raw	Foundation Food	1.29
16	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole	Foundation Food	1.27
17	Sausage, breakfast sausage, beef, pre-cooked, unprepared	Foundation Food	1.19
18	Nuts, pecans, halves, raw	Foundation Food	0.87
19	Restaurant, Chinese, sweet and sour pork	Foundation Food	0.767
20	Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat	Foundation Food	0.737
21	Cheese, ricotta, whole milk	Foundation Food	0.735
22	Figs, dried, uncooked	Foundation Food	0.618
23	Nectarines, raw	Foundation Food	0.566
24	Restaurant, Latino, pupusas con frijoles (pupusas, bean)	Foundation Food	0.563
25	Restaurant, Latino, tamale, pork	Foundation Food	0.555

Lowest in Aspartic acid

For contrast — the 10 lowest non-zero values on record, per 100g.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
53	Butter, stick, salted	Foundation Food	0.043
54	Almond milk, unsweetened, plain, refrigerated	Foundation Food	0.077
55	Oat milk, unsweetened, plain, refrigerated	Foundation Food	0.083
56	Pears, raw, bartlett (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.104
57	Pears, raw, bartlett	Foundation Food	0.104
58	Carrots, frozen, unprepared	Foundation Food	0.112
59	Carrots, frozen, unprepared (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.112
60	Melons, cantaloupe, raw	Foundation Food	0.113
61	Kiwifruit, green, raw	Foundation Food	0.113
62	Oranges, raw, navels	Foundation Food	0.12

More on Aspartic acid

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Sourced from USDA FoodData Central — Foundation Foods; not yet through an editorial verification pass.

USDA release 2026-04-30. All values are per 100 g unless stated otherwise.